Every 10 minutes, a new person is added to the organ transplant list (organdonor.gov). That’s 144 people each and every day. With the help of human cadavers, those 144 people can be helped and be given the opportunity to a more prolonged life. Mary Roach uses her book to inform people of this and uses different rhetorical devices to convince people to join in on the donation. Mary Roach has always had an interest in science related topics, whether she is experiencing it first hand or is writing about it.
Doctors are infamous for their unreadable writing; Richard Selzer is not one of those doctors. A talented surgeon, Selzer has garnered critical acclaim for his captivating operating room tales, and rightfully so. A perfect exhibition of this is The Knife, a detailed illustration of a surgery. What may seem like an uninteresting event is made mesmerizing by Selzer’s magnificent account of the human body and the meticulousness that goes into repairing it. The rhetorical appeals, tone, and figurative language that Selzer uses throughout The Knife provide the reader with a vivid description of the sacred process of surgery.
The story “The Use of Force” is told in the point of view of a doctor. The doctor is trying
The imagery that Connell creates in The Most Dangerous Game captivates the audience into a tale that makes one’s heart stop even for a split second. The feelings of suspense are nearly tangible to the reader when the silence of the writing surrounds them. Additionally, the two contradicting moods are easily flowed through together and yet discreetly set apart due to Connell’s use of imagery in various scenes. Despite all the other literary devices used within The Most Dangerous Game, imagery has to be the element that really allows the emotions of the literary piece to connect to its
Author’s commonly entice readers by using complex vocabulary and extremely detailed descriptions, also known as, diction. Readers will be more engaged if they can imagine the setting and characters. Making them put themselves in the same situation. In the short stories “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Dangerous Game” and “Harrison Bergeron” the authors use diction to engage the readers.
Lisa Sanders, a well known assistant clinical professor of internal medicine and education at Yale, has been writing for the New York Times since 2002. Sanders is also well known for her column, Diagnosis, in which she writes about rare diseases and cases. Over the years she has developed a unique writing style, consisting of mystery, and suspense to express that the human body is a miraculous thing. A strong use of sophisticated diction in her writings allows her to fully express the rarity and importance of the cases. Throughout her columns, Sanders uses description masterfully, resulting in readers being able to fully comprehend the thought process as if they were a doctor on the case.
Language is crucial in communicating emotions and effects in literature. The language in Joseph Heller’s, Catch - 22, is no exception. In this case: diction, organization, and figurative language all contribute to successfully conveying Yossarians effect on Colonel Cathcart; both main characters in the satire. One of the most prominent language techniques used by Heller is diction.
The scope of their job includes setup of operating theaters, transporting of patients to and from surgery, adjustments to lights and equipment, passing of instruments and surgical supplies to surgeon or surgeon’s assistants, holding retractors, cutting sutures and helping with inventory of sponges, needles, instruments and other supplies as needed for individual operations. Although this career seems to be full of thrill and very rewarding, it still has its own ups and downs. Let’s
Like the prior two examples, there are multiple levels of diction that add to the overall effect. He describes gore and violence with phrases such as "...with the heel of his boot stamped upon his head..." and "...blood gushed from his nose and ears..." that have a major shock factor and are often used to grab the attention of the reader. Once violence based diction has focused the reader's attention, more sympathy is created when the audience reads "... took my little brother by the throat...". An example of diction points in that phrase would be the "...took..." and "...by the throat...". Those both specify helplessness of the abused character.
In the short story, “Gore” suspense was devised by dialogue, supernatural characteristics, and revulsion. Dialogues in the short story by Amy such as, “Hey, hold it, you can’t do that. Get out of here. Help!” (Ellis 5) “Lucas, I mean it.
Another diction choice that supports the author’s goal of garnering readers’ attention comes at the end of the short story when the male character of the main plot tells his daughter, “Things change”. Although ‘things’ is a word commonly avoided by writers due to its vagueness, Carver uses it for exactly that reason. This diction choice forces the reader to once again make inferences about what the man means, and leaves the story open to each individual reader’s interpretation. Carver’s utilization of diction allows the reader to determine the meaning of the story for
He tries to express his feelings through the text as well. For example, he uses ‘a regular murderer” but he could have simply just used the word murderer or killer. This shows us that he the barber was not an experienced killer and that it would not be in his daily routine, unlike James Bond’s who probably goes on a new mission every day. Other examples of this word choices are ‘a sea of blood’ and ‘a special customer’. Diction is one of the devices that he uses in the story to make it more interesting and understandable for the readers.
Moral is a strange thing, it effects the way we act and reach. It effects what we think about others and were we draw the line. Moral is a concept of what is wrong and what is right when it comes to many things. Most of the time we have the same morals, most people consider murder wrong, but sadly, we do not all have the same morals. Morals can be something more personal and therefor they can differ.
Ray Bradbury uses several craft moves throughout his dystopian story names ‘The Veldt’. Using imagery, foreshadowing, and irony; Ray Bradbury enriches the story with these varying craft moves. Each is used to place the setting and feel of the story in the readers’ minds. Imagery is a craft move that was used to detail important areas in the story and help sell the scene Bradbury is creating to the reader. This is used to build a mood; one in particular is suspense.
The short story “Death by Scrabble” by Charlie Fish is about a tense and cynical boardgame session between and husband and wife with an unexpected deadly twist. Fish utilizes diction and foreshadowing to build suspense and keep a cold murderous mood throughout the story. The author also exercises a quick, cert, and highly emotional style of writing in order to maintain the tension between the reader and the narrator. The diction in this story is specifically chosen to create an aggressive and uncomfortable state between the narrator and reader.
